New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-19
LITERARY NOTES.

M- Gladstone was paid 81, 80 for his article pub
lshed in the current number OF The Nineteenth Cen
turyy That means about II cents word. For his
famous avicar" Goldsmith was paid $500; and
Charles and Mary Lamb received about the same tor
the " Tales from Shakespeare"
Divers personal "reminiscences of NJ. Coqueln WILL
II is sad appear in the article that actor which Mr.
Brander Matthews has contributed to the forthcoming
number OF Seribner's Magazine"
The fact that the late Lord Houghton's lite is to be
written by his son aifcts The Pail Mall Gazette
which declares that the present peer has special
qualifications for the work.
Another novel by F. Marion Crawford is to appear in
the @Nouvelle Revue,r the propuetors OF The At
lantic" having declined to permit the simultaneous
publication OF "Paul Patof." This story entitled
Marzios Crucifx" and II will be published in book
form by the Macmans.
Mr.. Stedman will have poem entitled Souvenir de
Jeunesse" in the next Century"
We find in The Boston Herald the following inter
esng statements concerning the present literary
dton OF the Hub" and the literary glory" derived
from few great writers, nearly all of whom have de-
parted "Ihat glory" says The Herald" is not to
be revived The not here to make this posi-
ble and it Is question whether the mutual admiration
society OF which The Transcript" used to be the
organ was after ALL the best sort of atmosphere in
which writer's should live. Emerson and Hawthorne
never liked It, though they breathed upon occasion,
and hurried away to the country as fast possible
afterward lest they should be injured by it, Whipple
positively injured by it, There living authors
among us who would have deserved vastly more of
their fellow If the fatal language of fattery had
been used to the qualification of the energy which
belonged to their natural gifts II is TO be hoped that
the literary atmosphere has considerably widened since
tiov uaf al IN Ia onn
of the Boston people 1t is also to be desired that
whoever has any reputation to make In the field of let
tiers in this neighborhood should make legitimate
grounds of good work. not on the agreement OF his
friends to boost him into a reputation. Quite num-
Der of men in middle life and in younger ranks are
rising daily into prominence among in the ranks Of
letters, but any all of them would be greatly in
lured In the larger and ripper estimation Of the public
by deliberate and understood attempt to write
neither into reputation. The change in til literary
atmosphere of Boston has been in the exchange of
provincalism for breadth of culture and in the
recognition OF this breadth people falling
into line with the operation of educational and literary
forces which prevail elsewhere. The strength of our
little pent.up Utica is difused over the whole
country. You will find in half the towns of NewEng-
land instances of the solitary literary culture which
used to be found chiefly in Boston and Cambridge 1t
IS in persons who working toward purposes of
genuine, and which do not depend for their success
upon the aids of personal dattery"
Professor Henry Drummonds Natural Law in the
Spiritual World ID IN its ftieth thousand in England
The British Museum authorities at odds with
few English publishers who have imported editions of
American books. The Museum has legal right to a
copy of any book coming from any British press. The
publishers contend that 1t has right to books pub
lished in America and having title-pages showing
their names instead OF the names OF the original
American publishersF II the English publisher claims
copyright he must OF course, yield to the Museum
be doesn't, then other firms pirate his American
books at WILL The difficulty is said to have arisen
in connection with expensive books OF which few
copies imported.
The periodical bearing the title of The Brooklyn
Magazine will become The American Magazine in
AIrl Miss Georgia Cayvan has written for the forth
coming number paper on Young Women and tie
Stage"